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Research and Publications on Africa
Even if we do not have a scientific vaccine against AIDS, we do have a very powerful social one: the vaccine of education. Given the right educational opportunities, support and values, the young people of this world need never become infected with HIV.
The Peace Weavers initiative is an attempt to develop various methodologies of social transformation in Africa at both national and international levels. The articles focus on five major themes: Advocacy and networking, the role of religion in peace building, multi-dimensional approaches to peace building, economic justice, and spirituality of peace
Fr. Noiret takes again here and expands the first edition of “Le Mythe d’Ibonia” (270 p.), in “Foi and Justice”, 1993 (exhausted). He adds to it also different versions resulting from various parts of the Island. The work was subsidized and the price is accessible for Madagascar (12 000 Ar), in all the good bookshops of the Island, or in Foi and Justice, Antananarivo. Taratra No. 310 - July/August 2008
Le pardon : une folie libératrice This book from Fr. W. Okambawa is on the theme of forgiveness. The Author's main thesis is that forgiveness is a liberating folly. By forgiving, the victim does good not only to the one in need of forgiveness, but s/he too frees her-/himself from the snare of hatred and resentment. The book handles various aspects of the problem that such a theme usually raises. It then goes on into a very deep analysis. It came out at an apt moment, namely in the well known sociopolitical upheaval of Ivory Coast. This has been confirmed by people's rush to get their own copy of the book. In less than a month, the Author had to issue a second edition (not print!). Let's hope this will be the Author's first of many responses to our need of light in Africa! (Paul Béré, SJ)
Refugee Rights: Ethics, Advocacy, and Africa “Refugee Rights addresses one of the most crucial issues concerning the plight of Africa since the 1980s. We warmly welcome the effort to explore the refugee issue from different perspectives: theological, ethical, legal, political, economic, and cultural. Such a holistic approach makes this book a seminal study in the attempt to understand our individual and collective responsibility vis-à-vis the refugee problem; and there is no doubt that this book will become a magnum opus for NGOs, activists, and many centers and institutes of peace in Africa.” Paulin Manwelo, S.J., Director of Hekima College Institute of Peace Studies & International Relations, Nairobi, Kenya.
“Like the psalmist, Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator invites us to ‘taste and see’ the richness of theology ‘brewed in an African pot.’ While others have analyzed the ingredients of inculturated African theology, Orobator offers us not a recipe but a feast. . . . [T]his is a work of great wisdom.” William O’Neill, S.J. - Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley. Using a framework of excerpts from Chinua Achebe’s well-known novel, Things Fall Apart, Orobator introduces the major themes of Christian doctrine: God, Trinity, creation, grace and sin, Jesus Christ, Church, Mary, the saints, inculturation, and spirituality. While explaining basic Christian beliefs, Theology Brewed in an African Pot also clarifies the differences between an African view of religion and a more Eurocentric understanding of religion. Very accessible and engaging, each of the eleven short chapters ends with three discussion questions followed by one or two African prayers. Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, a Jesuit priest from Nigeria, teaches theology and religious studies at Hekima College Jesuit School of Theology and Institute of Peace Studies (Nairobi, Kenya), where he is also rector. He is the author of several articles and three books published by Paulines in Nairobi. The launching of the Paulines’ edition of the book took place at Hekima College on 25 October 2008.
Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord. In the second of his stories published in a New Yorker special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa. Uwem Akpan was born in a village in Nigeria and currently teaches in Zimbabwe. After studying philosophy and English at Creighton and Gonzaga universities, he studied theology for three years at the Catholic University of East Africa. He was ordained as a Jesuit priest in 2003 and received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan in 2006. "My Parents' Bedroom," a story included in this, his first collection, was one of five short stories by African writers chosen as finalists for The Caine Prize for African Writing.
In October 2005, she leaves, with an anxious heart, but sure of her decision, toFonte Foa Mission, in Angónia, Tsangano district, in Mozambique. There, she learns the habits of a people always on the verge of poverty. She offers food, smiles and comfort. She mingles with the people, engages in farm work, construction of homes for orphans and gives catechesis. She spreads and lives out her faith with this people who have welcomed her, who show their tenderness for her, who look for her... There she feels happy, complete... Filling fulfilled, she renews her missionary commitment for another year. Unfortunately, this happiness doesn´t last long. On 6 November 2006, the month she would go for holidays in Portugal to visit relatives and friends, during a violent assault, she was assassinated. A life was lost, but her presence will always be felt by all those who have loved her and still love her...
Our research is in line with the authors who see in the ancient Egyptians natives of Africa and in the pre-colonial African societies the heirs of Kemet. Our goal is to help people to have a right comprehension of Africa, far from the implausible assumptions of Egyptologists and of eurocentred ethnologists of an Africa they do not understand in spite of the usual volume of their works, failing to grasp a correct angle of reality. In this book, we limit ourselves readily to the study of accounts. Those in so much as they belong to popular culture are not easily modifiable and thus have the advantage of keeping the traces of their remote origins. The accounts selected are from Kemet, Angola, Benin, Congo, Gabon, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal… To succeed in our demonstration of the kamite origin of African civilizations, we make use of three paradigms: etymological, categorical and functional developed by Molefi Kete Asante. Fr. Luka Lusala lu ne Nkuka is a Congolese Jesuit. He was born in Mbanza-Ngungu in the central Kongo province (DRC) on 18 October 1965. He has a licentiate in philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy Saint-Pierre Canisius/Kimwenza and a doctorate in missiology from the Pontifical Gregorian University/Rome. During three years, he was initiated to old Egyptian at the Pontifical Biblical Institute/Rome.
This book shows us how to read an account, to make accounts, to make a budget, to control the budget, to make accountancy with a software WORKS. “For each point, we will propose little theoretical explanation. We will give examples and exercises. In accountancy, it is by making exercises that one learns” (p. 4). It can be ordered from CEPAS (Kinshasa) by the companions or SJ communities at the promotional price of 4 €.
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EDUCATION: FOR AN AFRICA WITHOUT AIDS
PEACE WEAVERS: Methodologies of Peace Building in Africa
LE MYTHE D’IBONIA, LE GRAND PRINCE (MADAGASCAR )
THEOLOGY BREWED IN AN AFRICAN POT:
SAY YOU’RE ONE OF THEM
Idalina Gomes: Confidências de uma alma inquieta 
De l’origine Kamite des Civilisations Africaines: Lecture Afrocentrique de Quelques Récits
Comptabilité simple, IIIe éd. augmentée de Faire les comptes avec Works